Michelle Jephcott, Knoxville, TennesseeMember Since August 2007Artist Statement I first picked up a camera as a child in imitation of my dad who had a lovely old 35 mm Olympus. After playing with a series of 110 and 35 mm cameras, I moved into the digital age in 2001, getting an Olympus of my own.

I shoot with a combination of film and digital cameras, documenting the world around me as I see it - or maybe as I wish it to be seen. As a result, my work is a rather heterogeneous collection of photographs encompassing everything from family portraits to long exposure waterfall studies and sweeping landscapes to flower macros.